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A system and method for tracking the position and orientation of a probe such as a catheter whose transverse inner dimension may be at most about two millimeters. Three planar antennas that at least partly overlap are used to transmit electromagnetic radiation simultaneously, with the radiation transmitted by each antenna having its own spectrum. In the case of single-frequency spectra, the antennas are provided with mechanisms for decoupling them from each other. A receiver inside the probe includes sensors of the three components of the transmitted field, with sensors for at least two of the three components being pairs of sensors, such as coils, disposed symmetrically with respect to a common reference point. In one variant of the receiver, the coils are collinear and are wound about cores that are mounted in pairs of diametrically opposed apertures in the housing of the probe. In another variant of the receiver-catheter combination, the catheter is configured with an inner and outer sleeve connected at their ends by one or more flexible elements on which the coils are mounted. Each member of a pair of coils that sense the same component of the transmitted field is connected to a different input of a differential amplifier. The position and orientation of the receiver relative to the antennas are determined noniteratively, by setting up an overdetermined set of linear equations that relates the received signals to transmitter-receiver amplitudes, solving for the amplitudes and inferring the position coordinates and the orientation angles of the receiver relative to the transmitter from these amplitudes. For the purpose of navigating the probe within the body of a patient, the antennas are rigidly attached to an imaging device such as a fluoroscope, to provide a common frame of reference for both the acquired images of the patient and the measured position and orientation of the receiver. Alternatively, a second receiver is rigidly attached to the imaging device to provide the common frame of reference. In a third alternative, a third receiver is rigidly attached to the patient during imaging, and the mutual positions and orientations of the patient and the imaging device thus measured are used in subsequent navigation of the probe within the body of the patient. An imaging device that includes an electrically conductive surface is provided with a magnetically permeable compensator for minimizing distortion of the transmitted field. A scheme is provided for retrofitting an apparatus such as the receiver to a prior art catheter.
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- This is a Divisional of U.S. Ser. No. 09/463,177, pending.
- The present invention relates to electromagnetic tracking devices and, more particularly, to a system and method for tracking a medical probe such as a catheter as the probe is moved through the body of a patient.
- It is known to track the position and orientation of a moving object with respect to a fixed frame of reference, by equipping the moving object with a transmitter that transmits electromagnetic radiation, placing a receiver in a known and fixed position in the fixed frame of reference, and inferring the continuously changing position and orientation of the object from signals transmitted by the transmitter and received by the receiver. Equivalently, by the principle of reciprocity, the moving object is equipped with a receiver, and a transmitter is placed in a known and fixed position in the fixed frame of reference. Typically, the transmitter includes three orthogonal magnetic dipole transmitting antennas; the receiver includes three orthogonal magnetic dipole receiving sensors; and the object is close enough to the stationary apparatus (transmitter or receiver), and the frequencies of the signals are sufficiently low, that the signals are near field signals. Also typically, the system used is a closed loop system: the receiver is hardwired to, and explicitly synchronized with, the transmitter. Representative prior art patents in this field include US 4,287,809 and U.S. Pat. No. 4,394,831, to Egli et al.; U.S. Pat. No. 4,737,794, to Jones; U.S. Pat. No. 4,742,356, to Kuipers; U.S. Pat. No. 4,849,692, to Blood; and U.S. Pat. No. 5,347,289, to Elhardt. Several of the prior art patents, notably Jones, present non-iterative algorithms for computing the position and orientation of magnetic dipole transmitters with respect to magnetic dipole receivers.
- An important variant of such systems is described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,600,330, to Blood. In Blood's system, the transmitter is fixed in the fixed reference frame, and the receiver is attached to the moving object. Blood's transmitting antennas are spatially extended, and so cannot be treated as point sources. Blood also presents an algorithm which allows the orientation, but not the position, of the receiver relative to the transmitter to be calculated non-iteratively.
- Systems similar to Blood's are useful for tracking a probe, such as a catheter or an endoscope, as that probe is moved through the body of a medical patient. It is particularly important in this application that the receiver be inside the probe and that the transmitter be external to the patient, because transmitting antennas of sufficient power would not fit inside the confined volume of the probe. A representative prior art system of this type is described in PCT
Publication WO 96/05768, entitled “Medical Diagnosis, Treatment and Imaging Systems”, which is incorporated by reference for all purposes as if fully set forth herein. Medical applications of such systems include cismyocardial revascularization, balloon catheterization, stent emplacement, electrical mapping of the heart and the insertion of nerve stimulation electrodes into the brain. - Perhaps the most important application of this tracking is to intrabody navigation, as described by Acker in U.S. Pat. No. 5,729,129, with reference to PCT Publication No. WO 95/09562. A three-dimensional image, such as a CT or MRI image, of the patient is acquired. This image includes fiducial markers at predetermined fiducial points on the surface of the patient. Auxiliary receivers similar to the receiver of the probe are placed at the fiducial points. The signals received by the auxiliary receivers are used to register the image with respect to the transmitter frame of reference, so that an icon that represents the probe can be displayed, superposed on a slice of the image, with the correct position and orientation with respect to the image. In this way, a physician can see the position and orientation of the probe with respect to the patient's organs.
- WO 96/05768 illustrates another constraint imposed on such systems by the small interior dimensions of the probe. In most prior art systems, for example, the system of Egli et al., the receiver sensors are three concentric orthogonal coils wound on a ferrite core. The coils are “concentric” in the sense that their centers coincide. Such a receiver of sufficient sensitivity would not fit inside a medical probe. Therefore, the sensor coils of
WO 96/05768 are collinear: the three orthogonal coils are positioned one behind the other, with their centers on the axis of the probe, as illustrated in FIG. 3 ofWO 96/05768. This reduces the accuracy of the position and orientation measurements, because instead of sensing three independent magnetic field components at the same point in space, this receiver senses three independent magnetic field components at three different, albeit closely spaced, points in space. - A further, consequent concession of the system of
WO 96/05768 to the small interior dimensions of a catheter is the use of coils wound on air cores, rather than the conventional ferrite cores. The high mutual coupling of collinear coils wound on ferrite cores and measuring three independent field components at three different points in space would distort those measurements sufficiently to make those measurements fatally nonrepresentative of measurements at a single point. - Another drawback of the system of
WO 96/05768 relates to the geometry of the transmitter antennas. These are three nonoverlapping flat coplanar coils, preferably arranged in a triangle. Because the strength of the field transmitted by one of these coils falls as the reciprocal cube of the distance from the coil, the receiver usually senses fields of very disparate strength, which further degrades the accuracy of the position and orientation measurements. Acker addresses this problem by automatically boosting the power supplied to transmitting coils far from the receiver. In U.S. Pat. No. 5,752,513, Acker et al. address this problem by overlapping the coplanar transmitting coils. - Acker et al. transmit time-multiplexed DC signals. This time multiplexing slows down the measurement. Frequency multiplexing, as taught in
WO 96/05768, overcomes this problem, but introduces a new problem insofar as the transmitting coils are coupled by mutual inductance at non-zero transmission frequency, so that the transmitted field geometry is not the simple geometry associated with a single coil, but the more complex geometry associated with several coupled coils. This complicates and slows down the calculation of the position and orientation of the receiver relative to the transmitter coils. PCT Publication WO 97/36143, entitled “Mutual Induction Correction”, addresses this problem by generating, at each transmitter coil, counter-fields that cancel the fields generated by the other transmitter coils. - A further source of slowness in calculating the position and orientation of the receiver is the iterative nature of the calculation required for a spatially extended transmitter. As noted above, Blood calculates the position of the receiver iteratively. Even in the DC case, Acker et al. calculate both the position and the orientation of the receiver iteratively.
- There is thus a widely recognized need for, and it would be highly advantageous to have, a faster and more accurate method for tracking a medical probe inside the body of a patient.
- According to the present invention there is provided a system for tracking a position and an orientation of a probe, including a plurality of first sensors, each of the first sensors for detecting a different component of a vector force field, each of the first sensors including two sensor elements disposed symmetrically about a common reference point in the probe, the first sensors being mounted inside the probe.
- According to the present invention there is provided a method for determining a position and an orientation of an object with respect to a reference frame, including the steps of: (a) providing the object with three independent sensors of electromagnetic radiation; (b) providing three independent transmitting antennas of the electromagnetic radiation, each of the transmitting antennas having a fixed position in the reference frame, at least one of the transmitting antennas being spatially extended; (c) transmitting the electromagnetic radiation, using the transmitting antennas, a first of the transmitting antennas transmitting the electromagnetic radiation of a first spectrum, a second of the transmitting antennas transmitting the electromagnetic radiation of a second spectrum independent of the first spectrum, and a third of the transmitting antennas transmitting the electromagnetic radiation of a third spectrum independent of the first spectrum; (d) receiving signals corresponding to the electromagnetic radiation, at all three of the sensors, at a plurality of times, in synchrony with the transmitting of the electromagnetic radiation; and (e) inferring the position and the orientation of the object noniteratively from the signals.
- According to the present invention there is provided a system for determining a position and an orientation of an object, including: (a) a plurality of at least partly overlapping transmitter antennas; (b) a mechanism for exciting the transmitter antennas to transmit electromagnetic radiation simultaneously, the electromagnetic radiation transmitted by each of the transmitter antennas having a different spectrum; (c) at least one electromagnetic field sensor, associated with the object, operative to produce signals corresponding to the electromagnetic radiation; and (d) a mechanism for inferring the position and the orientation of the object from the signals.
- According to the present invention there is provided a system for determining a position and an orientation of an object, including: (a) a plurality of at least partly overlapping transmitter antennas; (b) a mechanism for exciting each of the transmitter antennas to transmit electromagnetic radiation of a certain single independent frequency and phase, the mechanism including, for each of the transmitter antennas, a mechanism for decoupling the each transmitter antenna from the electromagnetic radiation transmitted by every other transmitter antenna; (c) at least one electromagnetic field sensor, associated with the object, operative to produce signals corresponding to the electromagnetic radiation; and (d) a mechanism for inferring the position and the orientation of the object from the signals.
- According to the present invention there is provided a catheter, including: (a) a housing having a transverse inner dimension of at most about two millimeters; and (b) at least one coil, wound about a solid core, mounted inside the housing.
- According to the present invention there is provided a system for navigating a probe inside a body, including: (a) a receiver of electromagnetic radiation, inside the probe; (b) a device for acquiring an image of the body; and (c) a transmitter, of the electromagnetic radiation, including at least one antenna rigidly attached to the device so as to define a frame of reference that is fixed with respect to the device.
- According to the present invention there is provided a system for navigating a probe inside a body, including: (a) a first receiver of electromagnetic radiation, inside the probe; (b) a device for acquiring an image of the body; and (c) a second receiver, of the electromagnetic radiation, rigidly attached to the device so as to define a frame of reference that is fixed with respect to the device.
- According to the present invention there is provided a method of navigating a probe inside a body, including the steps of: (a) providing a device for acquiring an image of the body; (b) simultaneously: (i) acquiring the image of the body, and (ii) determining a position and orientation of the probe with respect to the image; and (c) displaying the image of the body with a representation of the probe superposed thereon according to the position and the orientation.
- According to the present invention there is provided a device for sensing an electromagnetic field at a point, including at least four sensing elements, at least two of the sensing elements being disposed eccentrically with respect to the point.
- According to the present invention there is provided a method for determining a position and an orientation of an object with respect to a reference frame, including the steps of: (a) providing the object with three independent sensors of electromagnetic radiation; (b) providing three independent transmitting antennas of the electromagnetic radiation, each of the transmitting antennas having a fixed position in the reference frame, at least one of the transmitting antennas being spatially extended; (c) transmitting the electromagnetic radiation, using the transmitting antennas, a first of the transmitting antennas transmitting the electromagnetic radiation of a first spectrum, a second of the transmitting antennas transmitting the electromagnetic radiation of a second spectrum independent of the first spectrum, and a third of the transmitting antennas transmitting the electromagnetic radiation of a third spectrum independent of the first spectrum; (d) receiving signals corresponding to the electromagnetic radiation, at all three of the sensors, at a plurality of times, in synchrony with the transmitting of the electromagnetic radiation; (e) setting up an overdetermined set of linear equations relating the signals to a set of amplitudes, there being, for each of the sensors: for each transmitting antenna: one of the amplitudes; and (f) solving the set of linear equations for the amplitudes.
- According to the present invention there is provided a method of navigating a probe inside a body, including the steps of: (a) providing a device for acquiring an image of the body; (b) simultaneously: (i) acquiring the image of the body, and (ii) determining a position and an orientation of the body with respect to the image; (c) determining a position and an orientation of the probe with respect to the body; and (d) displaying the image of the body with a representation of the probe superposed thereon according to both of the positions and both of the orientations.
- According to the present invention there is provided a device for sensing an electromagnetic field at a point, including: (a) two sensing elements, each of the sensing elements including a first lead and a second lead, the first leads being electrically connected to each other and to ground; and (b) a differential amplifier, each of the second leads being electrically connected to a different input of the differential amplifier.
- According to the present invention there is provided a catheter including: (a) an outer sleeve having an end; (b) an inner sleeve having an end and slidably mounted within the outer sleeve; (c) a first flexible member connecting the end of the outer sleeve to the end of the inner sleeve; and (d) a first coil mounted on the first flexible member.
- According to the present invention there is provided a system for determining a position and an orientation of an object, including:(a) at least one transmitter antenna for transmitting an electromagnetic field; (b) a first electromagnetic field sensor, associated with the object and including two sensing elements responsive to a first component of the transmitted electromagnetic field, each of the sensing elements including a first lead and a second lead, the first leads being electrically connected to each other and to ground; and (c) a first differential amplifier, each of the second leads being electrically connected to a different input of the first differential amplifier.
- According to the present invention there is provided an imaging device, including: (a) an electrically conducting surface; (b) a magnetically permeable compensator; and (c) a mechanism for securing the compensator relative to the surface so as to substantially suppress a distortion of an external electromagnetic field caused by the surface.
- According to the present invention there is provided a device for sensing an electromagnetic field, including: (a) a housing, including a first pair of diametrically opposed apertures, (b) a first core mounted in the first pair of apertures; and (c) a first coil of electrically conductive wire wound about the core.
- According to the present invention there is provided a probe for interacting with a body cavity, including: (a) a substantially cylindrical catheter; (b) a satellite; and (c) a mechanism for reversibly securing the satellite at a fixed position and orientation relative to the catheter after the catheter and the satellite have been inserted into the body cavity.
- Each receiver sensor of the present invention includes two sensor elements placed symmetrically with respect to a reference point inside the probe. All the sensor element pairs share the same reference point, so that the measured magnetic field components are representative of the field component values at the single reference point, instead of at three different points, as in the prior art system, despite the confined transverse interior dimensions of the probe. Because of the symmetric disposition of the sensor elements with respect to the reference point, the measured magnetic field components are representative of the field components at the reference point, despite the individual sensing elements not being centered on the reference point. This property of not being centered on the reference point is termed herein an eccentric disposition with respect to the reference point.
- In one preferred embodiment of the receiver of the present invention, the sensor elements are helical coils. Within each sensor, the coils are mutually parallel and connected in series. As in the case of the prior art receivers, the coils are arranged with their centers on the axis of the probe. To ensure that coils of different sensors are mutually perpendicular, the probe housing includes mutually perpendicular pairs of diametrically opposed apertures formed therein, the coils whose axes are perpendicular to the axis of the probe are wound about cores whose ends extend past the ends of the respective coils, and the ends of the cores are mounted in their respective apertures.
- In another preferred embodiment of the receiver of the present invention, with three sensors, the sensor elements are flat rectangular coils bent to conform to the shape of the cylindrical interior surface of the probe. The sensor elements of the three sensors are interleaved around the cylindrical surface. The advantage of this preferred embodiment over the first preferred embodiment is that this preferred embodiment leaves room within the probe for the insertion of other medical apparati.
- As noted above, within any one sensor, the coils are connected in series. This connection is grounded. The other end of each coil is connected, by one wire of a twisted pair of wires, to a different input of a differential amplifier.
- In a preferred embodiment of a cardiac catheter that incorporates a receiver of the present invention, the catheter includes an inner sleeve mounted slidably within an outer sleeve. One of the sensors includes two coils mounted within the inner sleeve, towards the distal end of the catheter. The distal end of the inner sleeve is connected to the distal end of the outer sleeve by flexible strips. Each of the other sensors includes two coils mounted on opposed lateral edges of a pair of flexible strips that flank the inner sleeve, with the inner sleeve running between the two members of the pair. When the inner sleeve is in the extended position thereof relative to the outer sleeve, the flexible strips lie flat against the inner sleeve, and the catheter can be maneuvered towards a patient's heart via the patient's blood vessels. When the end of the catheter has been introduced to the targeted chamber of the heart, the inner sleeve is withdrawn to the retracted position thereof relative to the outer sleeve, and the pairs of flexible strips form circles that are concentric with the reference point. Also mounted on the outward-facing surfaces of the flexible strips and, optionally, on the distal end of the inner sleeve, are electrodes for electrophysiologic mapping of the heart. Alternatively, the electrode on the distal end of the inner sleeve may be used for ablation of cardiac tissue, for example in the treatment of ventricular tachycardia.
- An alternative preferred embodiment of the cardiac catheter of the present invention has an inflatable balloon connecting the distal ends of the inner and outer sleeves. The coils of the external sensors are mounted on the external surface of the balloon. When the inner sleeve is in the extended position thereof relative to the outer sleeve, the balloon lies flat against the inner sleeve, and the catheter can be maneuvered towards the patient's heart via the patient's blood vessels. When the end of the catheter has been introduced to the targeted chamber of the heart, the inner sleeve is withdrawn to the retracted position thereof relative to the outer sleeve, and the balloon is inflated to a sphere that is concentric with the reference point.
- Although the primary application of the receiver of the present invention is to tracking a probe by receiving externally generated electromagnetic radiation, the scope of the present invention includes receivers for similar tracking based on the reception of any externally generated vector force field, for example, a time varying isotropic elastic field.
- The algorithm of the present invention for inferring the position and orientation of the receiver with respect to the transmitter is similar to the algorithm described in co-pending Israel Patent Application 122578. The signals received by the receiver are transformed to a 3×3 matrix M. The columns of M correspond to linear combinations of the amplitudes of the transmitted fields. The rows of M correspond to the receiver sensors. A rotationally invariant 3×3 position matrix W and a 3×3 rotation matrix T are inferred noniteratively from the matrix M. The Euler angles that represent the orientation of the receiver relative to the transmitter antennas are calculated noniteratively from the elements of T, and the Cartesian coordinates of the receiver relative to the transmitter antennas are calculated from the elements of W A preliminary calibration of the system, either by explicitly measuring the signals received by the receiver sensors at a succession of positions and orientations of the receiver, or by theoretically predicting these signals at the successive positions and orientations of the receiver, is used to determine polynomial coefficients that are used in the noniterative calculation of the Euler angles and the Cartesian coordinates. In essence, the extra time associated with an iterative calculation is exchanged for the extra time associated with an initial calibration. One simplification of the algorithm of the present invention, as compared to the algorithm of IL 122578, derives from the fact that the system of the present invention is a closed loop system.
- The preferred arrangement of the transmitter antennas of the present invention is as a set of flat, substantially coplanar coils that at least partially overlap. Unlike the preferred arrangement of Acker et al., it is not necessary that every coil overlap every other coil, as long as each coil overlaps at least one other coil. The most preferred arrangement of the transmitter antennas of the present invention consists of three antennas. Two of the antennas are adjacent and define a perimeter. The third antenna partly follows the perimeter and partly overlaps the first two antennas. The elements of the first column of M are sums of field amplitudes imputed to the first two antennas. The elements of the second column of M are differences of field amplitudes imputed to the first two antennas. The elements of the third column of M are linear combinations of the field amplitudes imputed to all three antennas that correspond to differences between the field amplitudes imputed to the third antenna and the field amplitudes that would be imputed to a fourth antenna that overlaps the portion of the first two antennas not overlapped by the third antenna.
- The signals transmitted by the various antennas of the present invention have different, independent spectra. The term “spectrum”, as used herein, encompasses both the amplitude and the phase of the transmitted signal, as a function of frequency. So, for example, if one antenna transmits a signal proportional to coscot and another antenna transmits a signal proportional to sincot, the two signals are said to have independent frequency spectra because their phases differ, even though their amplitude spectra both are proportional to δ(ω). The term “independent spectra”, as used herein, means that one spectrum is not proportional to another spectrum. So, for example, if one antenna transmits a signal equal to cos ωt and another antenna transmits a signal equal to 2 cos ωt, the spectra of the two signals are not independent. Although the scope of the present invention includes independent transmitted signals that differ only in phase, and not in frequency, the examples given below are restricted to independent transmitted signals that differ in their frequency content.
- The method employed by the present invention to decouple the transmitting antennas, thereby allowing each antennas to transmit at only a single frequency different from the frequencies at which the other antennas transmit, or, alternatively, allowing two antennas to transmit at a single frequency but with a predetermined phase relationship between the two signals, is to drive the antennas with circuitry that makes each antenna appear to the fields transmitted by the other antennas as an open circuit. To accomplish this, the driving circuitry of the present invention includes active circuit elements such as differential amplifiers, unlike the driving circuitry of the prior art, which includes only passive elements such as capacitors and resistors. By “driving circuitry” is meant the circuitry that imposes a current of a desired transmission spectrum on an antenna, and not, for example, circuitry such as that described in WO 97/36143 whose function is to detect transmissions by other antennas with other spectra and generate compensatory currents.
- With respect to intrabody navigation, the scope of the present invention includes the simultaneous acquisition and display of an image of the patient and superposition on that display of a representation of a probe inside the patient, with the representation positioned and oriented with respect to the image in the same way as the probe is positioned and oriented with respect to the patient. This is accomplished by positioning and orienting the imaging device with respect to the frame of reference of the transmitter, in one of two ways. Either the transmitter antennas are attached rigidly to the imaging device, or a second receiver is attached rigidly to the imaging device and the position and orientation of the imaging device with respect to the transmitter are determined in the same way as the position and orientation of the probe with respect to the transmitter are determined. This eliminates the need for fiducial points and fiducial markers. The scope of the present invention includes both 2D and 3D images, and includes imaging modalities such as CT, MRI, ultrasound and fluoroscopy. Medical applications to which the present invention is particularly suited include transesophageal echocardiography, intravascular ultrasound and intracardial ultrasound. In the context of intrabody navigation, the term “image” as used herein refers to an image of the interior of the patient's body, and not to an image of the patient's exterior.
- Under certain circumstances, the present invention facilitates intrabody navigation even if the image is acquired before the probe is navigated through the patient's body with reference to the image. A third receiver is attached rigidly to the limb of the patient to which the medical procedure is to be applied. During image acquisition, the position and orientation of the third receiver with respect to the imaging device is determined as described above. This determines the position and orientation of the limb with respect to the image. Subsequently, while the probe is being moved through the limb, the position and orientation of the probe with respect to the limb is determined using the second method described above to position and orient the probe with respect to the imaging device during simultaneous imaging and navigation. Given the position and orientation of the probe with respect to the limb and the orientation and position of the limb with respect to the image, it is trivial to infer the position and orientation of the probe with respect to the image.
- Many imaging devices used in conjunction with the present invention include electrically conducting surfaces. One important example of such an imaging device is a fluoroscope, whose image intensifier has an electrically conducting front face. According to the present invention, the imaging device is provided with a magnetically permeable compensator to suppress distortion of the electromagnetic field near the electrically conducting surface as a consequence of eddy currents induced in the electrically conducting surface by the electromagnetic waves transmitted by the transmitting antennas of the present invention.
- The scope of the present invention includes a scheme for retrofitting an apparatus such as the receiver of the present invention to a catheter to produce an upgraded probe for investigating or treating a body cavity of a patient. A tether provides a loose mechanical connection between the apparatus and the catheter while the apparatus and the catheter are inserted into the patient. When the apparatus and the catheter reach targeted body cavity, the tether is withdrawn to pull the apparatus into a pocket on the catheter. The pocket holds the apparatus in a fixed position and orientation relative to the catheter.
- The invention is herein described, by way of example only, with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein:
- FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a system of the present invention;
- FIG. 2A is a partly cut away perspective view of a probe and a receiver;
- FIG. 2B is a circuit diagram of the receiver of FIG. 2A;
- FIG. 2C illustrates features of the receiver of FIG. 2A that suppress unwanted electromagnetic coupling;
- FIG. 3 is an axial sectional view of a probe and a receiver;
- FIG. 4A shows two coils of opposite helicities;
- FIG. 4 shows two coils of identical helicities;
- FIG. 5 shows a second preferred embodiment of a receiver;
- FIG. 6 is a plan view of three loop antennas and two phantom loop antennas;
- FIGS. 7A, 7B and7C show alternative configurations of paired adjacent loop antennas;
- FIG. 8 is a schematic block diagram of driving circuitry
- FIG. 9 shows a C-mount fluoroscope modified for real-time intrabody navigation
- FIG. 10 shows a coil of the receiver of FIG. 5;
- FIG. 11 shows a CT scanner modified for imaging in support of subsequent intracranial navigation;
- FIG. 12A is a partly cut-away perspective view of a cardiac catheter of the present invention in the retracted position thereof;
- FIG. 12B is a perspective view of the catheter of FIG. 12A in the extended position thereof;
- FIG. 12C is an end-on view of the catheter of FIG. 12a in the retracted position thereof;
- FIG. 13A is a partly cut-away side view of a second embodiment of the cardiac catheter of the present invention in the retracted and inflated position thereof;
- FIG. 13B is an end-on view of the catheter of FIG. 13A in the retracted and inflated position thereof;
- FIG. 14 is a partial perspective view of the C-mount fluoroscope of FIG. 9, including a magnetically permeable compensator;
- FIG. 15 is a partial exploded perspective view of a preferred embodiment of the probe and receiver of FIG. 2A;
- FIG. 16 illustrates a scheme for retrofitting an apparatus such as the receiver of FIG. 2A to a catheter.
- The present invention is of a system and method for tracking the position and orientation of an object relative to a fixed frame of reference. Specifically, the present invention can be used to track the motion of a medical probe such as a catheter or an endoscope within the body of a patient.
- The principles and operation of remote tracking according to the present invention may be better understood with reference to the drawings and the accompanying description.
- Referring now to the drawings, FIG. 1 illustrates, in general terms, a system of the present invention. Within a
probe 10 is rigidly mounted areceiver 14.Receiver 14 includes threefield component sensors Sensor 16 includes twosensor elements sensor elements Sensor 20 includes twosensor elements Sensor elements common reference point 22. Similarly,sensor elements point 22, andsensor elements point 22. In the illustrated example,sensors longitudinal axis 12 ofprobe 10, but other configurations are possible, as discussed below. - The system of FIG. 1 also includes a
transmitter 24 of electromagnetic radiation.Transmitter 24 includes three substantially coplanarrectangular loop antennas circuitry 32.Loop antennas loop antenna 30. Drivingcircuitry 32 includes appropriate signal generators and amplifiers for driving each ofloop antennas transmitter 24 are received byreceiver 14. The signals fromreceiver 14 that correspond to these electromagnetic waves are sent toreception circuitry 34 that includes appropriate amplifiers and A/D converters.Reception circuitry 34 and drivingcircuitry 32 are controlled by a controller/processor 36 that typically is an appropriately programmed personal computer. Controller/processor 36 directs the generation of transmitted signals by drivingcircuitry 32 and the reception of received signals byreception circuitry 34. Controller/processor 36 also implements the algorithm described below to infer the position and orientation ofprobe 10. Note that the system of FIG. 1 is a closed-loop system: the reception of signals fromreceiver 14 is synchronized with the transmission of electromagnetic waves bytransmitter 24. - FIG. 2 shows a particular, slightly modified embodiment of
receiver 14. FIG. 2A is a perspective, partly cut away view ofprobe 10 withreceiver 14 mounted in thehousing 11 thereof. FIG. 2B is a circuit diagram ofreceiver 14. In this embodiment,sensor elements ferrite cores 70.Coils Coils Coils axis 12. Instead ofsensor 20 with twosensor elements single coil 20′ of conducting wire wound on aferrite core 70.Coil 20′ is parallel toaxis 12 and therefore is perpendicular to coils 16 a, 16 b, 18 a and 18 b.Coil 20′ is centered onreference point 22.Sensors reception circuitry 34 by twisted wire pairs 38. As shown in the circuit diagram of FIG. 2B, coils 16 a and 16 b are connected in series, and coils 18 a and 18 b are connected in series. - Because
sensors same reference point 22, coils 16 a, 16 b, 18 a, 18 b and 20′ can be wound onferrite cores 70 instead of the air cores of WO 96/05768 without causing undue distortion of the received signals, despite the small transverseinterior diameter 72, typically less than two millimeters, ofprobe 10 whenprobe 10 is a catheter. - Wire pairs38 are twisted in order to suppress electromagnetic coupling between wire pairs 38 and the environment, and in particular to suppress electromagnetic coupling between wire pairs 38 and
transmitter 24. FIG. 2C is a circuit diagram that shows further features of the present invention that suppress this electromagnetic coupling. FIG. 2C is drawn with particular reference tosensor 16, but the same features apply, mutatis mutandis, to sensor 18. -
Coils coil 16 a is connected, bywire 38 a oftwisted wire pair 38, to a positive input 126 a of a differential amplifier 128 ofreception circuitry 34.Outer lead 216 b ofcoil 16 b is connected, by wire 38 b oftwisted wire pair 38, to a negative input 126 b of differential amplifier 128. Inner leads 116 a and 116 b also are connected to ground 124 by awire 122. For illustrational clarity,wire 38 a is drawn as a solid line, wire 38 b is drawn as a dotted line andwire 122 is drawn as a dashed line. - FIG. 15 is a partial exploded perspective view of a preferred embodiment of
probe 10 andreceiver 14.Housing 11 is substantially cylindrical, with tworecesses recess apertures recess 511 andapertures recess 513.Arrows housing 11.Arrow 530 points in the longitudinal direction.Arrow 532 points in the azimuthal direction.Aperture pair aperture pair -
Coil 16 a is a coil of electrically conducting wire that is wound about a core 70 a.Core 70 a is mounted inapertures 514 and 516: end 518 ofcore 70 a, that extends beyondcoil 16 a, is mounted inaperture 514 and is secured rigidly in place by a suitable glue, and end 520 ofcore 70 a, that extends beyondcoil 16 a in the opposite direction, is mounted inaperture 516 and is secured rigidly in place by a suitable glue. Similarly,coil 18 a is a coil of electrically conducting wire that is wound about a core 70 b.Core 70 b is mounted inapertures 510 and 512: end 522 ofcore 70 b, that extends beyondcoil 18 a, is mounted inaperture 510 and is secured rigidly in place by a suitable glue, and end 524 ofcore 70 b, that extends beyondcoil 18 a in the opposite direction, is mounted inaperture 512 and is secured rigidly in place by a suitable glue. - FIG. 15 also shows the preferred azimuthal separation of
aperture pair aperture pair Aperture pair aperture pair aperture pair arrow 532, fromaperture pair core 70 b, and hence makescoils - In the case of
probe 10 being a catheter for invasively probing or treating a body cavity such as a chamber of the heart, it is preferable thathousing 11 be made of a nonmagnetic metal such as nitinol, titanium, iconel, phynox or stainless steel.Housing 11 thus is sufficiently flexible to bend under the lateral forces of the walls of blood vessels through whichprobe 10 is inserted towards the body cavity, and sufficiently resilient to return to its unstressed shape, withcoils probe 10 that includesreceiver 14 reaches the interior of the body cavity. Surprisingly, it has been found that the use of a conductive metal as the material ofhousing 11 does not distort the electromagnetic field sensed byreceiver 14 despite the current eddies induced inhousing 11 by the electromagnetic waves generated bytransmitter 24.Apertures coils housing 11 as a solid cylindrical block and drilling mutually perpendicular recesses in the block to receivecoils -
Coils - In an alternative structure (not shown) of
housing 11,housing 11 is formed as an open, spring-like frame that includesapertures ends cores housing 11 allowscoils ends housing 11 to flex during insertion towards a body cavity of a patient and to return to its unstressed shape upon arrival inside the body cavity. - FIG. 3 is an axial sectional view of
receiver 14 mounted in a variant ofprobe 10 that has twosections flexible connector 40. As in FIG. 2,sensors 16 and 18 includesensor elements axis 12.Sensor elements sensor elements sensor elements sensor elements Sensor 20 includes two sensor elements: coils 20 a and 20 b of conducting wire wound on air cores.Coils reference point 22 and are parallel toaxis 12. Likecoils coils Flexible connector 40 allows this variant ofprobe 10 to bend as this variant ofprobe 10 is moved within a medical patient. Sensor element pairs 16, 18 and 20 are disposed symmetrically with respect toreference point 22 in the sense that whenprobe 10 of FIG. 3 is straight, as drawn,sensor elements reference point 22; and likewisesensor elements reference point 22; andsensor elements reference point 22. Note that whenprobe 10 of FIG. 3 is straight,sensor elements axis 12 that intersectspoint 22, and so are disposed symmetrically with respect topoint 22. - For coil pairs such as
pairs point 22 when the coil pairs are connected as shown in FIG. 2A, the two coils must have opposite helicity, as illustrated in FIG. 4A, so that, in a spatially uniform time varying magnetic field, the signals induced in the two coil pairs 16 a and 16 b reinforce each other instead of canceling each other. Coil pairs 16 a and 16 b that have identical helicities, as illustrated in FIG. 4B, may be used to measure a magnetic field component gradient atpoint 22. Alternatively, coil pairs of identical helicities may be used to measure magnetic field components if the top of one coil is connected to the bottom of the other coil. - FIG. 5 illustrates a second class of preferred embodiments of
receiver 14. In FIG. 5, a conceptual cylindrical surface is denoted by dashedlines 42 and dashed circles 44. The embodiment ofreceiver 14 illustrated in FIG. 5 includes threesensors sensor elements Sensor elements circle 44 a.Sensor elements circle 44 b.Sensor elements reference point 22, meaning thatsensor elements reference point 22, are equidistant fromreference point 22, and are oriented so that an appropriate 180° rotation aboutpoint 22maps sensor 16 c intosensor 16 d. Similarly,sensor elements reference point 22, andsensor elements 20 e and 20 d are disposed symmetrically with respect toreference point 22.Sensor elements sensor elements Sensor elements sensor elements sensor elements sensor elements probe 10 or the outer surface of a cylindrical sleeve adapted to fit insideprobe 10. In the case of this embodiment ofreceiver 14 formed on the outer surface of a cylindrical sleeve,sensor elements sensor elements rectangular spiral 17 of anelectrical conductor 19. Only four turns are shown inspiral 17, for illustrational simplicity. Preferably, however, there are several hundred turns inspiral 17. For example, aspiral 17, intended for a cylindrical surface of a diameter of 1.6 millimeters, in whichconductor 19 has a width of 0.25 microns, and in which the windings are separated by gaps of 0.25 microns, has 167 turns. - FIGS. 12A, 12B and12C illustrate the distal end of a
cardiac catheter 300 of the present invention. FIG. 12A is a partly cut-away perspective view ofcatheter 300 in the retracted position thereof. FIG. 12B is a perspective view ofcatheter 300 in the extended position thereof. FIG. 12C is an end-on view ofcatheter 300 in the retracted position thereof.Catheter 300 includes a flexible cylindricalinner sleeve 302 slidably mounted in a flexible cylindricalouter sleeve 304. Connectingdistal end 306 ofinner sleeve 302 todistal end 308 ofouter sleeve 304 are four flexible rectangular strips 310. Wheninner sleeve 302 is in the extended position thereof relative toouter sleeve 304, strips 310 are flush againstinner sleeve 302, as shown in FIG. 12B. Wheninner sleeve 302 is in the retracted position thereof relative toouter sleeve 304, strips 310 bow outward in circular arcs, as shown in FIG. 12A. -
Catheter 300 includes a set of three orthogonal electromagnetic field component sensors 316, 318 and 320, in the manner ofreceiver 14 of FIG. 1. First sensor 316 includescoils lateral edges strip 310 a and on oppositelateral edges strip 310 c.Coil 316 a is mounted onlateral edges Coil 316 b is mounted onlateral edges coils lateral edges strip 310 b and on oppositelateral edges strip 310 d.Coil 318 a is mounted onlateral edges Coil 318 b is mounted onlateral edges coils Inner sleeve 302 is cut away in FIG. 12A to showcoils coils coil 316 a run throughinner sleeve 302, fromlateral edge 312 a tolateral edge 312 c, and do not terminate at the intersection oflateral edges inner sleeve 302. Similarly, the wires ofcoil 318 a do not terminate at the intersection oflateral edges inner sleeve 302, but instead run fromlateral edge 312 b tolateral edge 312 d. Also for illustrational clarity, lateral edges 312 are shown much wider than they really are in preferred embodiments ofcatheter 300.Coils - In a typical embodiment of
catheter 300, the length ofinner sleeve 302 exceeds the length ofouter sleeve 304 by 15.7 mm in the extended position. Also in a typical embodiment ofcatheter 300, each ofcoils -
Coils central point 322. Whencatheter 300 is opened to the retracted position thereof, as shown in FIGS. 12A and 12C, the circular arcs formed by strips 310 are concentric withpoint 322. This makes coils 316 a, 316 b, 318 a and 318 b circular and concentric withpoint 322, withcoils coils point 322 then becomes the reference point for electromagnetic field measurements. - In the extended position thereof,
catheter 300 is thin enough, preferably less than about 2 mm in diameter, to be inserted via the blood vessels of a patient into the patient's heart. Once the distal end ofcatheter 300 is inside the desired chamber of the patient's heart,inner sleeve 302 is withdrawn relative toouter sleeve 304 to putcatheter 300 in the retracted position thereof. Sensors 316, 318 and 320 are used in conjunction withtransmitter 24 in the manner described below to determine the location and orientation of the distal end ofcatheter 300 within the patient's heart. - Mounted on outward faces324 of strips 310 are four
electrodes 326. Mounted ondistal end 306 ofinner sleeve 302 is anelectrode 328.Electrodes electrode 328 to ablate that tissue in the treatment of conditions such as ventricular tachycardia. - FIGS. 13A and 13B illustrate the distal end of an
alternative embodiment 400 of the cardiac catheter of the present invention. FIG. 13A is a partly cut-away side view ofcatheter 400 in the retracted position thereof. FIG. 13B is an end-on view ofcatheter 400 in the retracted position thereof. Likecatheter 300,catheter 400 includes a flexible cylindricalinner sleeve 402 slidably mounted in a flexible cylindricalouter sleeve 404. Connectingdistal end 406 ofinner sleeve 402 todistal end 408 ofouter sleeve 404 is a single flexible member: aninflatable latex balloon 410. Wheninner sleeve 402 is in the extended position thereof relative toouter sleeve 404,balloon 410 is flush againstinner sleeve 402. After the illustrated distal end ofcatheter 400 has been introduced to the targeted chamber of a patient's heart,inner sleeve 402 is withdrawn to the retracted position thereof, andballoon 410 is inflated to assume a spherical shape. - Like
catheter 300,catheter 400 includes a set of three orthogonal electromagnetic field component sensors 416, 418 and 420, in the manner ofreceiver 14 of FIG. 1. First sensor 416 includesparallel coils outer surface 412 ofballoon 410. Second sensor 418 includesparallel coils coils outer surface 412, as shown. Third sensor 420 includes coils 420 a and 420 b.Balloon 410 andinner sleeve 402 are cut away in FIG. 13A to show coils 420 a and 420 b. Coils 420 a and 420 b are parallel and equidistant from acentral point 422. Whencatheter 400 is opened to the retracted position thereof andballoon 410 is inflated to a spherical shape,outer surface 412 is a sphere concentric withpoint 422. This makes coils 416 a, 416 b, 418 a and 418 b circular and concentric withpoint 422, so thatpoint 422 then becomes the reference point for electromagnetic field measurements. - Also as in the case of
catheter 300,catheter 400 includes fourelectrodes 426, similar toelectrodes 326, mounted onouter surface 412, and anelectrode 428, similar toelectrode 328, mounted ondistal end 406 ofinner sleeve 402. - FIG. 6 is a plan view of
loop antennas Loop antenna 26 is a rectangle withlegs Loop antenna 28 is a rectangle of the same shape and size asloop antenna 26, and withlegs Legs Loop antenna 30 also is rectangular, withlegs Leg 30 aoverlies legs 26 a and 28 a;leg 30 b overlies the upper half ofleg 28 b; andleg 30 d overlies the upper half ofleg 26 d, so thatloop antenna 30 overlaps half ofloop antenna 26 and half ofloop antenna 28. Also shown in phantom in FIG. 6 is a fourthrectangular loop antenna 46 and a fifthrectangular loop antenna 48 that are not part oftransmitter 24 but are referred to in the explanation below.Loop antenna 46 is of the same shape and size asloop antenna 30, and overlaps the halves ofloop antennas loop antenna 30.Loop antenna 48 matches the outer perimeter defined byloop antennas - To understand the preferred mode of the operation of the system of the present invention, it is helpful to consider first a less preferred mode, based on time domain multiplexing, of operating a similar system that includes all five loop antennas of FIG. 6. In this less preferred mode,
loop antenna 48 is energized using a sinusoidal current of angular frequency ω1. Then,loop antennas loop antennas receiver 14 in response to the electromagnetic waves so generated are sampled at times tm byreception circuitry 34. The sampled signals are: - s0 im=c0 i,1 cos ω1tm+c0 i,2 sin ω1tm from
loop antenna 48 - sh im=ch i,1 cos ω1tm+ch i,2 sin ω1tm from
loop antennas - sv im=cv i,1 cos ω1tm+cv i,2 sin ω1tm from
loop antennas - where i indexes the sensor that receives the corresponding signal. Coefficients c0 i,1, ch i,1 and cv i,1 are the in-phase amplitudes of the received signals. Coefficients c0 i,2, ch i,2 and cv i,2 are the quadrature amplitudes of the received signals. Because ω1 is sufficiently low that
receiver 14 is in the near fields generated by the loop antennas, in principle the quadrature amplitudes should be identically zero. Because of inevitable phase distortions, for example inreception circuitry 34, the quadrature amplitudes generally are not zero. - Note that amplitudes c0 i,j, ch i,j and cv i,1 (j=1,2)could be obtained by using
only loop antennas loop antennas - s1 im=c1 i cos ω1tm+c2 i sin ω1tm from
loop antenna 26 - s2 im=c3 i cos ω1tm+c4 i sin ω1tm from
loop antenna 28 - s3 im=c5 i cos ω1tm+c6 i sin ω1tm from
loop antenna 30 - the coefficients c1 i, c3 i and c5 i being in-phase amplitudes and the coefficients c2 i, c4 i and c6 i being quadrature amplitudes. Because the field radiated by
loop antennas loop antenna 48 when current J flows therein, - c 0 i,1 =c 1 i +c 3 i (1)
- c 0 i,2 =c 2 i +c 4 i (2)
- By definition,
- c h i,1 =c 1 i −c 3 i (3)
- c h i,2 =c 2 i −c 4 i (4)
- Finally, the fact that the field radiated by
loop antenna 48 could also be emulated by identical currents flowing throughloops - c v i,1=2c 5 i −c 1 i −c 3 i (5)
- c v i,1=2c 6 i −c 2 i −c 4 i (6)
- In the preferred mode of the operation of the system of the present invention,
loop antennas - s im =c i1 cos ω1 t m +c i2 sin ω 1 t m +c i3 cos ω2 t m +c i4 sin ω2 t m +c i5 cos ω3 t m +c i6 sin ω3 t m (7)
- Note that now, amplitudes ci1 and ci2 refer to frequency ω1, amplitudes ωi3 and ci4 refer to frequency ω2, and amplitudes ci5 and ci6 refer to frequency ω3. The sampled signals are organized in a matrix s of three rows, one row for each sensor of
receiver 14, and as many columns as there are times tm, one column per time. Amplitudes cij are organized in a matrix c of three rows and six columns. The matrices s and c are related by a matrix A of six rows and as many columns as there are in matrix s: - s=cA (8)
- Almost always, there are many more than six columns in matrix s, making equation (8) highly overdetermined. Because the transmission frequencies and the reception times are known, matrix A is known. Equation (8) is solved by right-multiplying both sides by a right inverse of matrix A: a matrix, denoted as A−1, such that AA−1=I, where I is the 6×6 identity matrix. Right inverse matrix A−1 is not unique. A particular right inverse matrix A−1 may be selected by criteria that are well known in the art. For example, A−1 may be the right inverse of A of smallest L2 norm. Alternatively, matrix c is determined as the generalized inverse of equation (8):
- c=sA T(AA T)−1 (9)
- where the superscript “T” means “transpose”. The generalized inverse has the advantage of being an implicit least squares solution of equation (8).
- In the special case of evenly sampled times tm, solving equation (8) is mathematically equivalent to the cross-correlation of WO 96/05768. Equation (8) allows the sampling of the signals from
receiver 14 at irregular times. Furthermore, there is no particular advantage to using frequencies ω1, ω2 and ω3 that are integral multiples of a base frequency. Using closely spaced frequencies has the advantage of allowing the use of narrow-band filters inreception circuitry 34, at the expense of the duration of the measurement having to be at least about 2π/Δω, where Δω is the smallest frequency spacing, except in the special case of two signals of the same frequency and different phases. - Because
receiver 14 is in the near field oftransmitter 24, coefficients cij of equation (7) are the same as coefficients cj i. It follows that equations (1)-(6) still hold, and either of two 3×3 matrices M can be formed from the elements of matrix c for further processing according to the description in co-pending Israel Patent Application 122578, an in-phase matrix -
- Note that because the system of the present invention is a closed-loop system, there is no sign ambiguity in M, unlike the corresponding matrix of co-pending Israel Patent Application 122578.
- Let T be the orthonormal matrix that defines the rotation of
probe 10 relative to the reference frame oftransmitter 24. Write M in the following form: - M=ET 0T (12)
- where T0 is an orthogonal matrix and E is in general a nonorthogonal matrix. In general, T0 and E are functions of the position of
probe 10 relative to the reference frame oftransmitter 24. Let - W 2 =MM T =ET 0 TT T 0 E T=EE T (13)
- W2 is real and symmetric, and so can be written as W2=Pd2PT=(PdPT)2, where d2 is a diagonal matrix whose diagonal elements are the (real and positive) eigenvalues of W2 and where P is a matrix whose columns are the corresponding eigenvectors of W2. Then W=PdPT=E also is symmetric. Substituting in equation (12) gives:
- M=PdP T T 0 T (14)
- so that
- T=T 0 T Pd −1 P T M (15)
- If T0 is known, then T, and hence the orientation of
probe 10 with respect to the reference frame oftransmitter 24, can be computed using equation (15). - For any particular configuration of the antennas of
transmitter 24, T0 may be determined by either of two different calibration procedures. - In the experimental calibration procedure,
probe 10 is oriented so that T is a unit matrix,probe 10 is moved to a succession of positions relative totransmitter 24, and M is measured at each position. The equation - T 0 =Pd −1 P T M (16)
- gives T0 at each of those calibration positions.
- There are two variants of the theoretical calibration procedure, both of which exploit reciprocity to treat
receiver 14 as a transmitter andtransmitter 24 as a receiver. The first variant exploits the principle of reciprocity. The sensor elements are modeled as point sources, including as many terms in their multipole expansions as are necessary for accuracy, and their transmitted magnetic fields in the plane oftransmitter 24 are calculated at a succession of positions relative thereto, also withprobe 10 oriented so that T is a unit matrix. The EMF induced in the antennas oftransmitter 24 by these time-varying magnetic fields is calculated using Faraday's law. The transfer function ofreception circuitry 34 then is used to compute M at each calibration position, and equation (16) gives T0 at each calibration position. In the second variant, the magnetic field generated by each antenna oftransmitter 24 at the three frequencies ω1, ω2 and ω3 is modeled using the Biot-Savart law. Note that each frequency corresponds to adifferent sensor object 10 is oriented so that T is a unit matrix. This gives the corresponding column of M up to a multiplicative constant and up to a correction based on the transfer function ofreception circuitry 34. - To interpolate T0 at other positions, a functional expression for T0 is fitted to the measured values of T0. Preferably, this functional expression is a polynomial. It has been found most preferable to express the Euler angles α, β and γ that define T0 as the following 36-term polynomials. The arguments of these polynomials are not direct functions of Cartesian coordinates x, y and z, but are combinations of certain elements of matrix Wthat resemble x, y and z, specifically, a=W13/(W11+W33), which resembles x; b=W23/(W22+W33), which resembles y, and c=log(1/W33), which resembles z. Using a direct product notation, the 36-term polynomials can be expressed as:
- α=(a, a 3 , a 5)(b, b 3 , b 5)(1, c, c 2 , c 3)AZcoe (17)
- β=(a, a 3 , a 5)(1, b 2 , b 4 , b 6)(1, c, c 2)ELcoe (18)
- γ=(1, a 2 , a 4 , a 6)(b, b 3 , b 5)(1, c, c 2)RLcoe (19)
- where AZcoe, ELcoe and RLcoe are 36-component vectors of the azimuth coefficients, elevation coefficients and roll coefficients that are fitted to the measured or calculated values of the Euler angles. Note that to fit these 36-component vectors, the calibration procedure must be carried out at at least 36 calibration positions. At each calibration position, W is computed from M using equation (13), and the position-like variables a, b and c are computed from W as above.
- Similarly, the Cartesian coordinates x, y and z of
probe 10 relative to the reference frame oftransmitter 24 may be expressed as polynomials. It has been found most preferable to express x, y and z as the following 36-term polynomials: - x=(a, a 3 , a 5)(1, b, b 4)(1, c, c 2 , c 3)Xcoe (20)
- y=(1, a 2 , a 4)(b, b 3 , b 5)(1, c 2 , c 3)Ycoe (21)
- z=(1, a 2 , a 4)(1, b 2 , b 4)(1, d, d 2 , d 3)Zcoe (22)
- where Xcoe, Ycoe and Zcoe are 36-component vectors of the x-coefficients, the y-coefficients, and the z-coefficients, respectively; and d=log(c). As in the case of the Euler angles, these position coordinate coefficients are determined by either measuring or computing M at at least 36 calibration positions and fitting the resulting values of a, b and c to the known calibration values of x, y and z. Equations (17) through (22) may be used subsequently to infer the Cartesian coordinates and Euler angles of moving and
rotating probe 10 noniteratively from measured values of M. - Although the antenna configuration illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 6 is the most preferred configuration, other configurations fall within the scope of the present invention. FIGS. 7A, 7B and7C show three alternative configurations of paired
adjacent loop antennas 26′ and 28′. The arrows indicate the direction of current flow that emulates a single loop antenna coincident with the outer perimeter ofantennas 26′ and 28′. Other useful coplanar overlapping antenna configurations are described in PCT Publication No. WO 96/03188, entitled “Computerized game Board”, which is incorporated by reference for all purposes as if fully set forth herein. - FIG. 8 is a schematic block diagram of driving
circuitry 32 for driving ageneric antenna 25 that represents any one ofloop antennas digital signal generator 50 generates samples of a sinusoid that are converted to an analog signal by a D/A converter 52. This analog signal is amplified by anamplifier 54 and sent to thepositive input 60 of adifferential amplifier 58.Loop antenna 25 is connected both to theoutput 64 ofdifferential amplifier 58 and to thenegative input 62 ofdifferential amplifier 58.Negative input 62 also is grounded via aresistor 66. The feedback loop thus set updrives antenna 25 at the frequency of the sinusoid generated bysignal generator 50, and makesantenna 25 appear to be an open circuit at all other frequencies. - Unlike the circuitry of WO 97/36143, which acts to offset the influence of one loop antenna on another, the circuitry of FIG. 8 decouples
loop antenna 25 from the other loop antennas. The superiority of the present invention over WO 97/36143 is evident. Consider, for example, how WO 97/36143 and the present invention correct for the mutual inductances ofloop antenna 26, radiating at a frequency ω1, andloop antenna 30, radiating at a frequency ω2. The goal is to set up the field of frequency ω1 that would be present ifonly loop antenna 26, and notloop antenna 30, were present, and to set up the field of frequency ω2 that would be present ifonly loop antenna 30, and notloop antenna 26, were present. By Faraday's and Ohm's laws, the time rate of change of the magnetic flux throughloop antenna 26 is proportional to the current throughloop antenna 26, and the time rate of change of the magnetic flux throughloop antenna 30 is proportional to the current throughloop antenna 30. In the absence ofloop antenna 30,loop antenna 26 sets up a certain time-varying magnetic flux of frequency ω1 across the area that would be bounded byloop antenna 30 ifloop antenna 30 were present. The method of WO 97/36143 forces the time rate of change of this magnetic flux throughloop antenna 30 to be zero. Because the magnetic flux has no DC component, the magnetic flux itself throughloop antenna 30 therefore also vanishes, which is contrary to the situation in the absence ofloop antenna 30. By contrast, the present invention makesloop antenna 30 appear to be an open circuit at frequency ω1 and so does not change the magnetic flux from what it would be in the absence ofloop antenna 30. - FIG. 9 shows, schematically, a C-
mount fluoroscope 80 modified according to the present invention for simultaneous real-time image acquisition and intrabody navigation.Fluoroscope 80 includes the conventional components of a C-mount fluoroscope: anx-ray source 82 and animage acquisition module 84 mounted on opposite ends of a C-mount 78, and a table 86 whereon the patient lies.Image acquisition module 84 converting x-rays that transit the patient on table 86 into electronic signals representative of a 2D image of the patient. C-mount 78 is pivotable about anaxis 76 to allow the imaging of the patient from several angles, thereby allowing the reconstruction of a 3D image of the patient from successive 2D images. In addition, either areceiver 114, similar toreceiver 14, ortransmitter 24, is rigidly mounted on C-mount 78.Receiver 114 ortransmitter 24 serves to define a frame of reference that is fixed relative to C-mount 78. The other components shown in FIG. 1, i.e., drivingcircuitry 32,reception circuitry 34, and control/processing unit 36, are connected totransmitter 24 and toreceiver 14 inprobe 10 as described above in connection with FIG. 1. In addition, signals fromreceiver 114 that correspond to the electromagnetic waves generated bytransmitter 24′ are sent toreception circuitry 134 that is identical toreception circuitry 34, and controller/processor 36 directs the reception of received signals byreception circuitry 134 and the acquisition of an image of the patient byimage acquisition module 84 offluoroscope 80. - By determining the position and orientation of
probe 10 relative to the frame of reference defined bytransmitter 24, controller/processor 36 determines the position and orientation ofprobe 10 relative to each acquired 2D image. Alternatively, the electromagnetic signals are transmitted by atransmitter 24′ that is not attached to C-mount 78, and controller/processor 36 determines the position and orientation ofprobe 10 relative to the 2D images by determining the positions and orientations ofreceivers transmitter 24′. Controller/processor 36 synthesizes a combined image that includes both the 3D image of the patient acquired byfluoroscope 80 and anicon representing probe 10 positioned and oriented with respect to the 3D image of the patient in the same way asprobe 10 is positioned and oriented with respect to the interior of the patient. Controller/processor 36 then displays this combined image on amonitor 92. - C-
mount fluoroscope 80 is illustrative rather than limitative. The scope of the present invention includes all suitable devices for acquiring 2D or 3D images of the interior of a patient, in modalities including CT, MRI and ultrasound in addition to fluoroscopy. - Under certain circumstances, the image acquisition and the intrabody navigation may be done sequentially, rather than simultaneously. This is advantageous if the medical imaging facilities and the medical treatment facilities can not be kept in the same location. For example, the human skull is sufficiently rigid that if a receiver of the present invention is rigidly mounted on the head of a patient using an appropriate headband, then the position and orientation of the receiver is a sufficient accurate representation of the position and orientation of the patient's head to allow intracranial navigation. FIG. 11 shows a
head 94 of a patient inside a (cut-away)CT scanner 98. As in the case offluoroscope 80 of FIG. 9,receiver 114 andtransmitter 24 are rigidly attached toCT scanner 98,transmitter 24 being so attached via anarm 100.CT scanner 98 acquires 2D x-ray images of successive horizontal slices ofhead 94. Areceiver 214 is rigidly mounted onhead 94 using aheadband 96. As the 2D images are acquired, the position and orientation ofreceiver 214 with respect to each image is determined by the methods described above for determining the position and orientation ofprobe 10 with respect to the 2D images acquired byfluoroscope 80. These positions and orientations are stored, along with the 2D images, in control/processing unit 36. Subsequently, during medical treatment ofhead 94 that requires navigation ofprobe 10 throughhead 94, the position and orientation ofprobe 10 inhead 94 is determined using signals fromreceivers probe 10 with respect to C-mount 78 offluoroscope 80 usingreceivers probe 10 with respect toreceiver 214 and the position and orientation ofreceiver 214 with respect to that 2D image, it is trivial to determine the position and orientation ofprobe 10 with respect to that 2D image. As in the case of the simultaneous imaging and navigation depicted in FIG. 9, controller/processor 36 now synthesizes a combined image that includes both the 3D image ofhead 94 acquired byCT scanner 98 and anicon representing probe 10 positioned and oriented with respect to the 3D image ofhead 94 in the same way asprobe 10 is positioned and oriented with respect tohead 94. Controller/processor 36 then displays this combined image onmonitor 92. - As in the case of
fluoroscope 80,CT scanner 98 is illustrative rather than limitative. The scope of the present invention includes all suitable devices for acquiring 2D or 3D images of a limb of a patient, in modalities including MRI, ultrasound and fluoroscopy in addition to CT. Note that this method of image acquisition followed by intrabody navigation allows the a centrally located imaging device to serve several medical treatment facilities. - FIG. 14 is a partially exploded, partial perspective view of a C-
mount fluoroscope 80′ modified according to one aspect of the present invention. Like C-mount fluoroscope 80, C-mount fluoroscope 80′ includes anx-ray source 84 and animage acquisition module 82 at opposite ends of a C-mount 78.Image acquisition module 82 includes animage intensifier 83, afront face 85 whereof facesx-ray source 84, and aCCD camera 87, mounted on the end ofimage intensifier 83 that is oppositefront face 85, for acquiring images that are intensified byimage intensifier 83.Image intensifier 83 is housed in acylindrical housing 91. In addition,fluoroscope 80′ includes anannular compensator 500 made of a magnetically permeable material such as mu-metal. - The need for
compensator 500 derives from the fact thatfront face 85 is electrically conductive. The electromagnetic waves generated bytransmitter front face 85 that distort the electromagnetic field sensed byreceiver 14. Placing a mass of a magnetically permeable substance such as mu-metal in the proper spatial relationship withfront face 85 suppresses this distortion. This is taught, for example, in U.S. Pat. No. 5,760,335, to Gilboa, which patent is incorporated by reference for all purposes as if fully set forth herein, in the context of shielding a CRT from external radiation without perturbing the electromagnetic field external to the CRT. - Preferably,
compensator 500 is a ring, 5 cm in axial length, of mu metal foil 0.5 mm thick.Compensator 500 is slidably mounted on theexternal surface 89 ofcylindrical housing 91, as indicated by double-headedarrows 504, and is held in place by friction. It is straightforward for one ordinarily skilled in the art to select a position ofcompensator 500 onhousing 91 that provides the optimal suppression of distortions of the electromagnetic field outsideimage intensifier 83 due to eddy currents infront face 85. - It often is desirable to retrofit a new apparatus such as
receiver 14 to an existing catheter rather than to design anew probe 10 that includes both the new apparatus and the functionality of an already existing probe. This retrofit capability is particularly important ifprobe 10 would have been used for medical applications, and both the apparatus and the existing probe had already been approved for medical applications by the relevant regulatory bodies. Such a retrofit capability then would preclude the need to obtain regulatory approval for the new probe, a process that often is both expensive and time-consuming. - FIG. 16 illustrates just such a retrofit capability, for adapting a
satellite 550 to a substantiallycylindrical catheter 552 for invasively probing or treating a body cavity such as a chamber of the heart.Satellite 550 is an instrumentation capsule that may containreceiver 14 or any other medically useful apparatus. For example,satellite 550 may contain an apparatus for ablating cardiac tissue. A catheter such ascatheter 552 is introduced to the body cavity of a patient via the patient's blood vessels, via an introducer sheath. It is important that the external diameter of the introducer sheath be minimized, to reduce the risk of bleeding by the patient. Consequently, the external diameter ofcatheter 552 also must be minimized, and any scheme for retrofittingsatellite 550 tocatheter 552 must allowsatellite 550 to be introduced into the introducer sheath along withcatheter 552. It is the latter requirement that generally precludes simply attachingsatellite 550 tocatheter 552. In addition, ifsatellite 550 includesreceiver 14, with the intention of usingreceiver 14 to track the position and orientation ofcatheter 550, then, whensatellite 550 andcatheter 552 are deployed within the body cavity,satellite 550 must have a fixed position and orientation relative tocatheter 552. - The retrofitting scheme of FIG. 16 achieves these ends by providing
satellite 550 andcatheter 552 with a mechanism for providing only a loose mechanical connection betweensatellite 550 andcatheter 552 assatellite 550 andcatheter 552 are introduced to the body cavity, and only then securingsatellite 550 tocatheter 552 at a fixed position and orientation relative tocatheter 552. FIG. 16A shows a thinflexible tether 554 attached toproximal end 556 ofsatellite 550. Tether 554 provides a mechanical link to the outside of the patient. Depending on the instrumentation installed intether 554,tether 554 may also provide a communications link to the outside of the patient. For example, ifsatellite 550 includesreceiver 14, then extensions of wire pairs 38 are included intether 554. Rigidly attached to tether 554 is a hollowcylindrical sleeve 558 whose inner diameter is the same as the outer diameter ofcatheter 552. - The remainder of the mechanism for reversibly securing
satellite 550 tocatheter 552 is shown in FIG. 16B.Catheter 552 is provided, neardistal end 564 thereof, with apocket 560 made of a flexible, resilient, elastic material.Pocket 560 is attached rigidly to the outer surface ofcatheter 552.Pocket 560 includes anaperture 562, which isadjacent catheter 552 at the proximal end ofcatheter 552, and which accommodatestether 554.Pocket 560 is sized to accommodatesatellite 550 snugly therein via an opening indistal end 566 ofpocket 560. -
Satellite 550,catheter 552 and the associated securing mechanism are assembled as shown in FIG. 16C, withtether 554 running throughaperture 562,sleeve 558 encirclingcatheter 552 proximal ofpocket 560, andsatellite 550 distal ofpocket 560.Catheter 552 andtether 554 are shown emerging from the distal end of aprotective jacket 568. Preferably,sleeve 558 is made of a low-friction material such as Teflon™, to allowsleeve 558 to slide freely alongcatheter 552. The assembly shown in FIG. 16C is introduced to the introducer sheath withsatellite 550 in front ofcatheter 552. During this introduction,pocket 560 is compressed against the outer surface ofcatheter 552 by the introducer sheath. Tether 554 is sufficiently flexible to bend along withcatheter 552 andjacket 568 as the assembly shown in FIG. 16C passes through the patient's blood vessels, but is sufficiently rigid to pushsatellite 550 ahead ofdistal end 564 ofcatheter 552 ascatheter 552 is inserted into the patient. As a result,satellite 550 anddistal end 564 ofcatheter 552 reach interior of the targeted body cavity in the configuration illustrated in FIG. 16C. At this point,pocket 560 opens, andtether 554 is pulled to withdrawsatellite 550 intopocket 560 via the opening indistal end 566 ofpocket 560.Satellite 550 andtether 554 now are held bypocket 560,sleeve 558 andjacket 568 in a fixed position and orientation relative tocatheter 552, as illustrated in FIG. 16D. - Subsequent to treatment,
tether 554 is pushed to restore the configuration shown in FIG. 16C, to allowcatheter 552 andsatellite 550 to be withdrawn from the patient. - While the invention has been described with respect to a limited number of embodiments, it will be appreciated that many variations, modifications and other applications of the invention may be made.
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1. An imaging device, comprising:
(a) an electrically conducting surface;
(b) a magnetically permeable compensator; and
(c) a mechanism for securing said compensator relative to said surface so as to substantially suppress a distortion of an external electromagnetic field caused by said surface.
2. The imaging device of , wherein said compensator includes mu-metal.
claim 1
3. The imaging device of , wherein said mechanism is integral with said compensator.
claim 1
4. The imaging device of , further comprising:
claim 3
(d) a substantially cylindrical housing having an outer surface, said electrically conducting surface being positioned at one end of said housing;
and wherein said compensator is annular, slidably mounted on said outer surface and frictionally secured to said housing.
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